by Simon on 11 Aug, 2015 - Comments Off

Beginning of the Mongol Rally 2015! After a hungover train ride from London we meet Derek, our awesome car mechanic, at the Surrey station who then drove us to the car we’d be spending the next 6ish weeks in. Derek and his son Joe did an awesome job with the car. It was everything we […]

by Brad Cooper on 19 Jun, 2015 - Comments Off

Introducing Scott Patterson.  The self proclaimed engine enthusiast and chief trouble starter of the group. A product of the small South Island town of Timaru, with not much to do in this part of the world you had to make your own fun.  It was here that the antics started. I met Scotty at the start of […]

by Scott on 17 Jun, 2015 - Comments Off

So we finally acquired a little hoon-box that is suitably unsuitable enough for the 20,000 kilometre sprint. Featuring a stonking great 0.996 litre engine, this little monster is capable of getting to 100km/h in as little as 16.7 seconds and can reach a jaw-dropping top speed of 140km/h downhill with a tail wind. Presenting our […]

by Scott on 30 Apr, 2015 - 0 comments

Alright fellow followers. Update time. We have revisited the first draft of our route which we planned out during Session #1 – the one we’ve been parading around on our website for the past while. Doing the calcs, this route would have seen us journey 21,151kms of roads and questionable terrain. This means we would […]

by carson on 21 Apr, 2015 - Comments Off

After a pair of goof-ups, New Zealand has cleared me for driving on the World’s roads. Somewhat proudly, the two stuff-ups both fell outside the driving test itself. Not-so-proudly, the first failure saw me arriving for the practical test 24 hours early, and the second not having my car’s road tax in check. With my […]

by Simon on 20 Mar, 2015 - Comments Off

Tajikistan is one of the destinations we plan to explore, which is the home of the second highest highway in the world – the Pamir Highway. Climbing up to 4500m altitude it can be also considered one of the most dangerous roads, and is referred to as “The Road from Hell”. The Pamir Highway passes […]

by Scott on 28 Jan, 2015 - 0 comments

Brad brad brad… where do we start? Mr Bradley Cooper is a scraggly-haired lad from the dirty deep south of the South Island. Hailing from Makarewa near Invercargill, Brad has had a world of freedom at his fingertips from day one. During his early years going to school at a small-town High School brad would […]

by Brad Cooper on 12 Jan, 2015 - Comments Off

Meet Grievous (Simon) our trusty mechanic and ambassador of optimism. After spending a year living with the guy and his 4 cars I have no doubt that we will go the distance in our little car. Throughout my time living with him in Dunedin he thrived in a garageless and cheap tool environment that was […]

by Scott on 02 Dec, 2014 - 0 comments

All things being fair, it must be said that New Zealand is a relatively safe place to live. Putting aside, of course, our often ridiculous choices we make about personal safety. We have no notable poisonous insects or nasty animals. Also, humans in NZ generally (generally) want to be nice to other humans. The same […]

by Scott on 25 Nov, 2014 - 1 comment

      After our freak out of the couple of dozen countries on our visa list, we’ve locked ourselves into a weekly meet up where beers are dinner and Scotty is left staring through his camera. Puzzling with each other over how to start nutting the route planning, we printed and sellotaped a few […]

by carson on 17 Nov, 2014 - 2 comments

Amongst the usual leisures, brewing beers and fishing for planes, we’ve been well busy and sorted out some flights. Car or no car, we’re getting ourselves dropped off at one side of the world and picked up from another. The crew at STA travel scored some sweet routes, along with some freebies, and let us […]

by Scott on 14 Oct, 2014 - 0 comments

We’ve been working super hard to get our site and social accounts set up and we’re finally done! Phew, that’s one less thing to do. Next steps? Try to get some sponsors! Oh, and sorting visas, flights, route, timeframes, and a car too…